Discussion: PS2 Hardware Showing its Age

[tarakan69]

Originally posted by gekko
More like a little behind its time. The system's architecture sucks. It's similar to N64s, but even worse.

That is closer truth...

The problem with the PS2's launch arose not from it's unique alien architecture which had so much power but nobody could utilize it... but from the fact that the design at heart was flawed and outdated.

There were no software development libraries... So developers had to make their own. Let's look at the X-Box... everything that PC developers had come up with for Direct X 8 could be used.All the extensions, techinque. For the PS2 you had an outdated piece of hardware with ram limitations and no software libraries.

So developers don't "learn" to tap the PS2. The technique either exists or does not. The improvements we see with each passing month is because developers basicly had nothing to tap the PS2 with from the beggining. (not like there is a whole lot to tap anyways)

Originally posted by Joeiss
Why doesn't the PS2 just release an add on for its RAM... Kind of like what Nintendo did for N64. This would give more RAM to use... Yep... Unless what I said is not possibly.... Then nevermind.. lol.

??? Nope... even if you open your PS2 their in no easy way to intall anything into. Also you can't expect the average dumb PS2 owner to actually buy an upgrade to play newer games.